The local universality of veterinary expertise and the geography of animal disease
The local universality of veterinary expertise and the geography of animal disease
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00452.x
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Enticott, Gareth
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作者：
Enticott, Gareth
本文探讨了与动物卫生监管有关的地方普遍性概念。协议已经在医疗实践中发挥重要作用，标准化疾病和识别疾病所需的专业知识。专注于使用协议，以确定牛结核病（BTB）在英格兰和威尔士，有人认为，去背景化的专业知识固有的协议在实践中不卡住。使用民族志的两个兽医的做法，而不是显示形式的兽医专业知识出现在实际的突发事件，从而制定不同的本体论版本的bTB。这些技能的发展源于组织bTB测试的关系以及通过非正式的基于工作的学习模式。虽然这些做法因地而异，并偏离了bTB测试协议，但实际上是实践中的变化而不是一致性，使协议有效地发挥作用。最后，本文讨论了如何管理动物卫生可能是一个灵活的，而不是统一的方法来帮助疾病和兽医专业知识。
This paper explores the concept of local universality in relation to the regulation of animal health. Protocols have come to play an important role in medical practice, standardising diseases and the expertise required to identify them. Focusing on the use of protocols to identify bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in England and Wales, it is argued that the decontextualised expertise inherent to protocols comes unstuck in practice. Using ethnographies of two veterinary practices, the paper instead shows how forms of situated veterinary expertise emerge in response to practical contingencies, thereby enacting different ontological versions of bTB. The development of these skills stems from the relationships that organise bTB testing as well as through informal work-based modes of learning. Although these practices vary from place to place and depart from the bTB testing protocol, it is variation in practice rather than uniformity that effectively allows the protocol to work. In conclusion, the paper discusses how the management of animal health may be assisted by a flexible rather than uniform approach to disease and veterinary expertise.